Some Good Stuff Coming To Mario Kart 8 In A New Update

Nintendo announced some good stuff that's coming to Mario Kart 8 in a new update alongside the... controversial Mercedez Benz DLC pack. They're incremental tweaks, but they sound like welcome improvements all the same. Here are the ones I'm looking forward to:

Players will be able to display a map of the racetrack on their TV screen.

The game will save the player's most recent vehicle combination for the next time they it up.

Players will be able to edit one another's highlight reels.

"Improved online stability," which is always a good thing in my book!

I'll take the game out for a spin once the update officially lands and report back then.

Comments

The worst part about Battle mode is that it's clearly just pure lazieness in re-using the tracks. If they had of tried something new and it didn't work as well, that would suck a little, but laziness is far more of an insult.

Same issue here, I've gotten maybe 3 matches down? It's awesome because apparently I am pretty good (at least against who I've matched with) and I want to see where I end up. Maybe I'm in the noob end still?

Always dropping out. I think it may be my slower connection though? Just waiting for NBN in a month or two. At least it will be here in time for Smash!

I'm a little disappointed they aren't tweaking the item balance a little. There's just a few things that are slightly off about it, like 2nd place getting triple red shells while 8th place gets a single mushroom.

Glad they're adding the track map to the screen, but that DLC, YUCK! Thank God it's free, no-one in their right mind would pay for it. Why couldn't they have given us some extra characters like Diddy Kong, I would've happily paid a few bucks for him.

Triple AAA games nailing the brief. Indie games surprising people out of nowhere, and expansions and patches that completely turn a game around. It's been a good year for games - now it's time for you to vote for your favourite.